The

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XC2000 family is a

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that can be found in automotive applications including transmissions, hybrid applications, driver assistant systems and

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Key features

The XC2000 family uses the Infineon proprietary C166

in a version which also contains a

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MAC unit. Core frequency ranges from 40 to 100 MHz, embedded flash from 32 KB to 1.6 MB, RAM up to 138 KB. The microcontroller containing an embedded voltage regulator can run from a single power supply between 3 and 5 V.

Architecture

CPU

The

Central Processing Unit A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...

(CPU) of the XC2000

family is principally fetching and decoding instructions, to supply, perform operations and store calculated result on the operands for the

arithmetic logic unit In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on integer binary numbers. This is in contrast to a floating-point unit (FPU), which operates on floating point numb ...

(ALU) and the MAC unit. As the CPU is the main engine of the XC2000 microcontroller, it is also affected by certain actions of the peripheral subsystem. Because a five-stage processing pipeline (plus two-stage fetch pipeline) is implemented in the XC2000, up to five instructions can be processed in parallel. Most instructions of the XC2000 are executed in one single clock cycle due to this parallelism.

Peripherals

* One or two analog to digital converters with up to 30 channels, 600 ns conversion time, up to 10 or 12-bit resolution * up to four units for PWM generation (CCU6) with 16-bit resolution * up to six CAN nodes with up to 256 message objects * up to 10 Universal Serial Interface Controller channels for software defined serial interfaces (SPI, UART, I2C, I2S) * External bus unit

Development tools

Evaluation kits

There are "Easy Kits" for evaluation of the controller features and "Application Kits" as quick start for specific applications available.XC2300 Easy Kits and Application Kits
/ref> Main applications are in the industrial field like electric motor control, automation and solar inverters.

Free tools

* DAVE (" Digital Application virtual Engineer") is a free tool to configure low-level drivers and automatically generate source code. * DAVE Drive is a free tool for automated motor control generation which generates motor specific control codes like

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or block commutation or V/Hz speed control. * Free Tasking compiler program

Third-party tools

* Tasking

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toolset * Hitex

debugger A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is to run the target program under controlled conditions that permit the programmer to track its execut ...

* PLS debugger

References

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